Overall i am pleased with my project and how it came out, however there are a few things i think if added or improved would have helped further the tone/meaning. Firstly there are two shots that are less than perfect when you know where you are looking. The first being when the character comes in through the door and "turns on the light". The light switch in fact is non-existent, the light you see come on is actually george holding one of the LED lights and turning it on at the just the right time. The reason for this was i knew i wanted to experiment with black and white however if tht did not look right i would have to do it in colour, but the lights they had in the house were very yellow and did not look aesthetically pleasing. Due to George having to stand there with the lights you can see his legs on the stairs however it is dark so you would not notice unless told.
With the other shot i had to cut it short as the LED light would have come into shot as the camera pulled out of an extreme close up. We had propped it up on the table surface to allow for a cinematic look on the extreme close up however i failed to realise until post production that light had made it into the shot, so the slow pull out is shorter than i expected but i still feel that it captures the same look.
Another thing i would like to improve on is the final shot. As the camera pulls out i would like to fade George out as to reinforce the fact that he is a ghost-like entity and maybe add a meaning that because the main character didn't drive whilst he was drunk, the ghosts job is done for now. So he was posing as a kind of guardian angel.
I have also learnt that if you can afford it, actors are better than friends. Not because their acting won't be as good but because they will be more reliable. This also becomes a key factor in any member of crew/ cast if you present your proposal/ task to them with confidence and talking to them in a professional manor whether they are friends or actors.
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